Developing a disease activity tool for systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis by international consensus using the Delphi approach

Rheumatology

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1574-1578

  Ramanan, A V ^a   Schneider, R ^a   Batthish, M ^a   Achonu, C ^a   Ota, S ^a   McLimont, M ^a   Young, N L ^a,b   Feldman, Brian M ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disease activity; Juvenile idiopathic arthritis; Measurement

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSENSUS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEVER; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; JUVENILE RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PARENT; PATIENT; PEDIATRICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SYMPTOM;

ALGORITHMS; ARTHRITIS, JUVENILE RHEUMATOID; CHILD; DELPHI TECHNIQUE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 28544439747     PISSN: 14620324     EISSN: 14620332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kei095     Document Type: Article

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